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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. ...more

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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. ...more

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He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain a...more

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He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd presumed to understand and of which he knew nothing a...more

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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

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When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wi...more

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Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pin...more

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I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I'm goin to tell you you'll think peculiar but it's the god's truth. That was in nineteen and thirty on...more

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Used to be a hobo right smart. back in the thirties. They wasnt no work I dont care what you could do. I was ridin through the mountains one night, st...more

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No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that on...more